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 | | It was here, in 1389, the Serbs just a couple decades removed from their historical heights, their ‘zenith’, where they ruled from the ‘Adriatic to the Aegean’, that the Serbian leader Knez Lazar met the invading Turkish army. |
 | | But the legend of Kosovo Polye goes that the cause of their defeat to the Muslim Turks wasn’t that they were defeated militarily, but that Knez Lazar was given a choice, between a kingdom in heaven or one on earth, and as the poems goes, he chose heaven. |
 | | And written on this stone are the words of Knez Lazar, spoken on the eve of that fateful battle: |
| members.tripod.com /johnniebbaker/foolish/file3a.html (3799 words) |
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